Historic New England

Box

Leather-covered wooden box with hinged and locking lid. Box exterior is decorated with a leather handle and tacks. A crack in the leather across the left side of the lid has been stablized with small tacks. The interior is lined with a large-scale pineapple pattern wall or bandbox paper. The paper...

Date: 1825-1830

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), leather, metal, block printing (relief printing process), varnish

GUSN: 287752

Accession Number: 2001.281.552

Box

Leather-covered wooden box with hinged and locking lid. Box exterior is decorated with a leather handle and tacks. "John B. Bradford, Gardner" is written faintly on the lid. The interior is lined with a wallpaper with a delicate, all-over sprig pattern block-printed in white on blue ground. The pa...

Date: 1840-1850

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), leather, metal, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 287761

Accession Number: 2001.281.553

Box

Leather-covered wooden box with hinged and locking lid. Box exterior is decorated with a leather handle, leather strapping, and tacks. The interior is lined with an all-over floral wallpaper block-printed in green. Paper ground color cannot be determined (possibly buff, pale yellow or white).

Date: 1815-1835

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), wood (plant material), leather, metal, block printing (relief printing process)

GUSN: 287762

Accession Number: 2001.281.554.1

Tracing of a Wallpaper Pattern

Three tracings of the same floral wallpaper pattern. Found inside a leather covered box (2001.281.554.1). Traced pattern is not the same as the wallpaper lining the box.

Maker: unknown

Material: tracing paper

GUSN: 287770

Accession Number: 2001.281.554.2A-C

Table Lamp

Electric table lamp, white ceramic painted with gold stars. Tiered shaft with circular dish shaped base. Lamp has a Slvania Capsylite 72W bulb in the socket. Shade is missing.

Date: 1950-2000

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 287800

Accession Number: 2013.4.104

Basket

Woven basket with handle, rectangular shape. Stamped metal leaves decorate base of each handle.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 287820

Accession Number: 2013.4.106

Mug

Mug with red, black, blue, and white text on a yellow ground. "San Francisco Cable Car". Cost Plus, Inc.

Date: 1950-2000

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 287821

Accession Number: 2013.4.107

Partial Dinner Plate Set

Transfer printed blue and white scene of a willow tree, pagoda, bridge. Geometric border. Partial set of fifteen blue and white transfer printed "Semi China" plates. Seven 6" plates; Three 7" plates; Five 9" plates. Earthenware. Ridgway, Engraved 1832 for Wridgway & Co., England, Made in Great Br...

Date: 1880-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 287822

Accession Number: 2013.4.108

Bowl

Blue and white transferprinted decoration of birds, pagoda, three men on a bridge. Two shallow bowls with blue and white transfer printed decoration.

Date: 1880-1980

Maker: Johnson Bros.

Material: earthenware, transfer printing

GUSN: 287824

Accession Number: 2013.4.110

Plate

Plate with blue and white transfer printed decoration, "willow ware" pattern.. Royal China.

Date: 1880-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: earthenware

GUSN: 287825

Accession Number: 2013.4.111

Lithograph

Framed black and white print of a lithograph. "The Crescent, Buxton". Lithographed by Newman & Co., 48 Watling St. London. Black and gold molded plastic frame.

Maker: unknown

Material: lithographs

GUSN: 287826

Accession Number: 2013.4.112

Photograph

Framed sepia toned photograph of four girls playing croquet. Plain wood frame painted black.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 287827

Accession Number: 2013.4.113

Photograph

Framed black and white photograph of Jane Tucker as a young woman with dark curly hair. Woman is wearing a dark v-neck blouse with pearls. Plain wood frame.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 287834

Accession Number: 2013.4.114

Photograph

Framed black and white photograph of an elderly gentleman with a mustache. Man is wearing a suit, dress shirt, and tie. Plain wood frame.

Date: 1930-1960

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 287829

Accession Number: 2013.4.115

Photograph

Framed color photograph of a mountain top observatory. Gold painted wood frame.

Maker: unknown

Material: color photography

GUSN: 287830

Accession Number: 2013.4.116

Photograph

Framed color photograph of a coyote in the snow. Plain wood frame.

Maker: unknown

Material: color photography

GUSN: 287831

Accession Number: 2013.4.117

Certificate

Framed certificate "Independence Day 1992. Jane Tucker named Honorary Marshal, Wiscasset, Maine". Brown molded plastic frame.

Date: 1992

Maker: unknown

Material: paper by composition or origin

GUSN: 287832

Accession Number: 2013.4.118

Award

Framed certificate. State of Maine Historic Preservation Award presented to Jane Tucker by the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. Black painted wood frame. Label explaining award pasted on back.

Date: unknown

Maker: unknown

Material: paper by composition or origin

GUSN: 287833

Accession Number: 2013.4.119

Wallpaper

Roll of wallpaper with floral spring and fibbon stripe alternating with a band of silver accents over light blue and white stripes with a serpantine dot pattern and flowers.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: York Card & Paper Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product), mica (white pigment)

GUSN: 287838

Accession Number: 2013.106.1

Wallpaper

Roll of wallpaper with taupe or light tan background and featuring a square tile pattern including blue, Middle Eastern style "tiles."

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287839

Accession Number: 2013.106.2

Wallpaper

Roll of wallpaper with beige or light tan background with alternating stripes of fruit and leaves on small dotted matrix and stripes of ivy in a faux jacquard print.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287840

Accession Number: 2013.106.3

Wallpaper

A roll of wallpaper with white background and light pink floral sprays with yellow green leaves.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287841

Accession Number: 2013.106.4

Wallpaper

Roll of wallpaper with yellow and silver circle and foliate pattern on a ochre background.

Date: 1880-1900

Maker: Janeway & Carpenter

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287842

Accession Number: 2013.106.5

Wallpaper

Roll of wallpaper. Fern and floral pattern in muted greens, oranges, and yellows on a beige ground.

Date: 1890-1920

Maker: Robert Graves Co. (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287843

Accession Number: 2013.106.6

Brooch

Fishing rod and creel brooch. Rod balanced atop basket with fishtail sticking out of the top. Small chain connects the tip of the rod to the bottom of the basket.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: Beaucraft, Inc. (Manufacturer)

Material: sterling silver

GUSN: 287860

Accession Number: 2013.111.1

Brooch

Small submarine pin. Sleek submarine with rounded nose and small propeller. The Kinney Company.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 287861

Accession Number: 2013.111.2

Brooch

Submarine pin. Submarine has a squared off blunted nose. Row of portholes along top edge. Conning tower marked "GD". No visible makers mark.

Date: 1960-1970

Maker: unknown

Material: silver (metal)

GUSN: 287862

Accession Number: 2013.111.3

Purse

Beaded purse [A] with gold chain and clasp in original white Thomas Long Company box [B, C]. Boston, MA.

Date: 1915-1925

Maker: unknown

Material: silk (fiber), beads (pierced objects), metal, paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 287863

Accession Number: 2013.112.1A-C

Tracing of a Wallpaper Pattern

Pencil tracing on tracing paper of Neoclassical wallpaper pattern. The traced wallpaper covers an old trunk from the Woodward House, Waban, Massachusetts (see trunk 2001.281.555.1). The tracing itself was found inside the trunk. The wallpaper pattern is of repeating floral bouquets joined by festoo...

Date: 1940-1960

Maker: unknown

Material: tracing paper

GUSN: 287877

Accession Number: 2001.281.555.2

Center Table

Center table with octagonal top and carved pedestal base. Base decorated with interlocking chain, scroll, and floral medallion patterns. Four flat rectangular feet.

Date: 1919

Maker: Bacon, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1856-1940 (Maker)

Material: walnut (wood)

GUSN: 287884

Accession Number: 2013.119.1

Teapot

Cylindrical Chinese export teaport (a) with red floral overglaze decoration. Two crossing ribbon handle with molded flower and leaf; painted flower and leaf on side, opening at top circled wtih red ivy wreath. Lid (b) with berry knop.

Date: 19th century

Maker: unknown

Material: porcelain

GUSN: 290132

Accession Number: 1958.254AB

Carved bird

Wood carving of a partridge.

Date: 1939

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 290133

Accession Number: 1958.246

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused piece of reproduction wallpaper. Pattern name and manufacturer are not known. Wallpaper has alternating stripes of pink roses and one of smaller pink flowers, divided by solid green stripes, printed on a cream ground. Pattern is based on fragments of wallpaper dated to 1920-1930 found at the ...

Date: 1960-1980

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290136

Accession Number: 2001.281.780

Carved bird

Wood carving of pheasant standing on a log.

Date: 1938

Maker: unknown

Material: wood (plant material)

GUSN: 290137

Accession Number: 1958.247

"Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, Sweet, Sweet"

Polychrome watercolor and pencil painting of flowering branch with two birds, in a molded wood gilt frame. White flowers, green leaves, buff birds.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: watercolor paper, glass (material), wood (plant material), gilding

GUSN: 290143

Accession Number: 1958.336

"Colutea Arborescens. 1789"

Polychrome botanic print of yellow pea flower and leaves above, with fruit and leaves below in modern unstained wood frame with tan mat.

Date: 1790

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), glass (material), wood (plant material)

GUSN: 290144

Accession Number: 1958.244

Rug

Large wool rug with three large guls arranged in a line containing rosette and geometric motifs and female figures on blue field. Large guls with smaller octagonal guls in between. Wide border containing large and smaller guls and rosettes, and narrower border with rosettes and running dog guard.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 290148

Accession Number: 1958.258

Reproduction Wallpaper

Unused piece of reproduction wallpaper in pattern #120388 manufactured by Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Wallpaper has an all-over pattern of large stylized flowers and leaves on undulating vines. Roller-printed in blue and yellow on a mottled blue background. Pattern is a reproduction of a paper fou...

Date: 1970-1980

Maker: Waterhouse Wallhangings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290151

Accession Number: 2001.281.781

Rug

Rectangular wool and cotton rug with white central field with repeated tre-of-life motif in red, pink and blue, with red, blue and red floral/ geometric border. Possibly woven for a marriage.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile), cotton (textile)

GUSN: 290154

Accession Number: 1958.259

Rug

Wool rug with repeating enclosed tree-of-life or floral motifs on a blue field. Geometric and rosette border on white and pink fields.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 290156

Accession Number: 1958.260

Reproduction Wallpaper Border

Unused piece of reproduction wallpaper border manufactured by Waterhouse Wallhangings, Inc. Pattern name and number are unknown. Border has highly abstracted pattern of rosettes atop a scalloped swag, horizontal stripe, dots and another horizontal stripe. Roller-printed in blue and yellow on a light...

Date: 1970-1980

Maker: Waterhouse Wallhangings (Manufacturer)

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290158

Accession Number: 2001.281.782

Rug

Rectangular wool rug with red, yellow and blue rosettes on a blue field with "S", rosette, and "S" border interspersed with red and white guards.

Date: 1890-1950

Maker: unknown

Material: wool (textile)

GUSN: 290159

Accession Number: 1958.261

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of five uncut floral wallpaper borders. Pattern of pink water lilies, cattails, white flowers and green foliage on light green ground. Flowers and foliage grow from behind and spill over a red band with black circle and dot pattern running along the bottom edge of the border. Ochre stripe...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290165

Accession Number: 2001.281.922

Wallpaper Border

Fragments of three uncut wallpaper borders. Geometric fleur-de-lis pattern roller-printed in white, gray , and black on ungrounded paper.

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290169

Accession Number: 2001.281.923AB

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of two uncut floral wallpaper borders. Stylized maroon, orange and yellow flowers and leaves on black ground. Band with yellow dots and dashes and maroon squares runs along upper edge of border. Single yellow stripe at lower edge. Roller-printed in two yellows, maroon and orange on black...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290171

Accession Number: 2001.281.924

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of uncut floral vine wallpaper borders. Undulating brown branch with green leaves, orange and maroon flowers and yellow berries on black background. Yellow band of stripes and diagonal dashes runs along lower edge. Single yellow stripe runs along upper edge. Roller-printed in yellow, orang...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290178

Accession Number: 2001.281.925

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of two uncut floral wallpaper borders. Red and white flowers with green foliage and yellow grasses on black ground. Flowers and foliage grow from behind and spill over bands of yellow and maroon running along the lower edge of the border. Single yellow stripe runs along upper edge. Roller...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product)

GUSN: 290179

Accession Number: 2001.281.926

Wallpaper Border

Fragment of floral wallpaper border. Red flowers and green foliage on black background. Flowers and foliage grow from behind and spill over a band of gold and maroon half circles and stripes on olive ground running along lower edge of border. Narrower border of gold and maroon half-circles and st...

Date: 1880-1890

Maker: unknown

Material: paper (fiber product), metallic pigment

GUSN: 290180

Accession Number: 2001.281.927

Wallpaper Border

Partial roll of French wallpaper border. Grisaille foliage plasterwork bordering eliptical and octagonal panels of reclining nudes alternating with arabesques. Printed in three greys, turquoise, two pinks, rose, green, blue, yellow, ochre, black and white on grey ground. See also 1917.153AB cut samp...

Date: 1790-1810

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 290227

Accession Number: 1917.153C

Coat

Men's great coat of black wool with a satin lining.

Maker: unknown

GUSN: 290251

Accession Number: 1984.1700

Search Collections

Displaying: 217801 - 217850 of 223,951